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RUNNING from brain-eating zombies through creeks covered in mud is something Rockhampton’s Tim and Katie Griffin do for fun. “We went to New Zealand last year for the Run for Your Freakin’ Life five kilometre course where you have to run from Zombies through all of this haunted-themed infrastructure, it was a lot of ...

IF YOU think you know Tough Mudder, think again. Course designers are hard at work arranging new challenges and surprises for this year’s Sunshine Coast event following the success of last year’s inaugural run. More than 24,000 “Mudders” battled water, ice, electricity and, of course, mud at the massive Caloundra South course. But what is ...

BIGGEST Loser trainer and former Special Forces solider Steve “The Commando” Willis is no stranger to gruelling fitness challenges. But there is one endurance event that even he flinches at. Returning to Ipswich once again, fitness fanatics are flexing their muscles in anticipation of a military-style obstacle race called The Spartan Race. And according to ...

Ready for your philosophical question of the day? When two hot men like Taylor Kitschand Mark Wahlberg race each other through a giant inflatable obstacle course, who would win? Trick question. It’s the viewers who win in this situation, because we are the ones who get to witness Taylor and Mark bounce off walls, roll over one another ...

ELECTROCUTION, being submerged in ice water and crawling on your hands and knees through tar-like substances. Think this sounds more like a form of torture than recreation? Then you’re probably not alone. I participated in my first obstacle course event this month, and the first question most people asked when I them told about it ...

So you made a new year’s resolution, that this year you would stop making excuses and take your physical fitness to the next level. Be honest, some of you did, most of you didn’t and some are still thinking about it. Zara Daniels on the other hand has redefined the new year’s resolution. She has ...

ELEVEN local athletes inspired by burns victim Turia Pitt’s strength and determination completed Sydney’s Tough Mudder event in record time on Saturday October 12. The grueling challenge is considered one the toughest events in the world with 20-kilometres of mud, high voltage electric shock obstacles, mud crawls and ice baths designed by the British Special ...

INTRODUCING Sydney-sider Darren Fittler. He’s just become the first blind man in the world to complete the Tough Mudder. Alongside close friend and personal trainer Dirk Venter, Fittler took on and conquered the gruelling 20km hardcore obstacle course of 3m walls and freezing ice baths in four hours and 19 minutes to write himself into ...

THE Mental Health Team at Murrumbidgee Medicare Local (MML) has made a victorious return from Sydney after completing the gruelling Tough Mudder Challenge recently. Members of the team decided to use the popular fitness event to celebrate Mental Health Month and raise awareness of the link between mental health and physical health. Designed by the ...

HE’S climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, swum the Irish Sea and run a couple of marathons in the UK. The X Factor judge Ronan Keating’s latest physical challenge came with the Tough Mudder endurance course in Sydney. And his late mum, Marie, who died from breast cancer in 1998, was with him every step of the way. ...